Ben Ainslie (GBR) sailing for Team Origin with his crew of Matt Cornwell (GBR), Iain Percy (GBR), and Christian Kamp (DEN) took the other semifinal match 3-1. Ainslie moves into the finals after defeating reigning ISAF Match Racing World Champion Ian Williams (GBR) of Team Pindar sponsored by Argo Group. Williams, with his crew of Mark Nicholls, Richard Sydenham, and Gerry Mitchell, goes into the petite final on Sunday. Ainslie, holder of four Olympic medals, three of them gold, had a perfect 7-0 score going into the quarter finals but lost two matches in that stage and only one more in today's semi final.

Ainslie said that in the quarter finals he missed the shifts in the two races he lost. "In the last race, we got into the shifts," he said. "We just got ahead and stayed ahead." About his match with Williams, he said, "We just got the shifts better. We are happy with the way the day turned out and we are looking forward to racing Adam Minoprio tomorrow. The Argo Group Gold Cup is a special event, both the boats and the sailing conditions suit our style of racing."

Minoprio will move up to the top of the World Tour rankings. "We really want to win the Gold Cup tomorrow," Minoprio said. "We would like to go into the Monsoon Cup with a healthy lead to have a good chance to win the World Match Racing Tour." The Tour winner is crowned the ISAF Match Racing World Champion.

Tomorrow, Minoprio and Ainslie will race for the gold, each doing his utmost to put his own name on the famous King Edward VII Gold Cup trophy and take home the first place prize purse of $50,000. Second place takes $20,000, third place $10,000 and fourth place $7,000. The total purse is $100,000.

Williams and Monnin will match up in the Petite Finals to decide third and fourth place.

Racing had been delayed Saturday morning until 10:00 waiting for the breeze to fill in sufficiently for racing to start. In their first match of the morning, Flight three of the quarter-final, Ainslie and Team Origin took their first two losses. Ainslie came back in the fifth race to defeat Torvar Mirsky (AUS) 3-2 as Argo Group Gold Cup quarter-final racing concluded Saturday morning. Mirsky, the current World Tour leader, was relegated to the consolation matches to decide places fifth to eighth.

In the consolation matches, Bermudian Blythe Walker and his Max Re team lost their first match to Mathieu Richard (FRA) representing the French Match Racing Team. Last year's King Edward VII Gold Cup winner Johnie Berntsson (SWE) Berntsson Sailing Team won their first match against Mirsky.

The second matches of the consolations saw Berntsson defeat Richard for fifth place, so Richard took sixth place. Walker had a win against Mirsky for seventh place pushing Mirsky into eighth.

Tom Burton (AUS) and Alison Young (GBR) hit the right note in the Laser and Laser Radial at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne as they took out the top honours and qualification spots to the 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup Final.

It was double Australian gold in the Paralympic classes. Matt Bugg (AUS) came out on top in the 2.4mR whilst London 2012 Paralympic SKUD18 gold medallists Dan Fitzgibbon and Liesl Tesch (AUS) were triumphant in the two person keelboat.

Lithuania's Juozas Bernotas came out on top in the Men's RS:X whilst Russia's Stefania Elfutina was triumphant in the Women's RS:X. Both sailors claim the first Abu Dhabi ISAF Sailing World Cup Final spots whilst Jock Calvert (AUS) and Joanna Sterling (AUS) picked up the Oceanic spots for the Emirati finale.

There was some fast paced action in the 49er and 49erFX Medal Races at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne as Nathan Outteridge & Iain Jensen (AUS) and Maia & Ragna Agerup (NOR) claimed the honours and Abu Dhabi final spots.

A tight group of five young Papua New Guinean (PNG) Laser sailors are stepping up their 2015 Pacific Games competition program using this week's ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne. PNG is one of 33 countries represented at the important Oceanic event, the largest Olympic sailing regatta in the southern hemisphere.

Nicolai Sehested (DEN) and his TREFOR Match Racing Team clinched victory today at the Energa Sopot Match Race, Poland, the 10th stage and World Championship Event of the 2015 World Match Racing Tour (WMRT).

There was no stopping current, and five-time ISAF Match Racing World Champion Ian Williams (GBR), GAC Pindar today at the Energa Sopot Match Race as he swiftly dispatched his Quarter Final opponent Joachim Aschenbrenner (DEN) in three straight wins.

The International Sailing Federation (ISAF) continues to address concerns and is taking steps to ensure the health and safety of all athletes who will be competing in the upcoming Aquece Rio, Olympic Test Event and the Rio 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition.

Veteran Polish match racer and America's Cup helmsman Karol Jablonski skilfully played the gusty conditions today to lead the twelve strong field of teams at the end of Day 2 of Qualifying at the 2015 Energa Sopot Match Race.